Friday, 19 April 2013

Street food agnomen is given to foods which are sold on stalls in and
around any market place. India is a country of various language and food.
Visiting Indian metro cities and not having street food is considered as real
miss of fun as well as taste. I have been fortunate to travel & stay in
many cities of India such as Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai,
Bangalore and many others. Out of these cities Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi are
considered as Metro cities in India, Of course it includes Mumbai but I have not visited this financial capital of India yet.

Kolkata, West Bengal

The street food is amazing at Kolkata various streets such
paani puri at Esplanade popularly known as Dharmatalla, sweets all across
Bengal, Rolls at park street, Momo all around Kolkata. There are several other
varieties you can test without any fear of health issue.

Amazing paani puri

Bengali sweets

Rolls varieties

Momo: Popular food of north east

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow is famous for its soft and sweet culture hence food varieties is bound to be sweet desserts apart from famous tunde kabab.

Kulfi faluda

Tunde Kabab

Jalebi : goes well with curd

Delhi

This is capital city of India and offers varieties of north India food on street. The taste is amazing that you will not like to miss if you happen to try.

Paratha & samosa: not to be missed

Various curry's

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Chennai is on southern part of India. You can try Chennai tea and coffee sold at street as well as fired corns, chilli & banana bhajji along with coconut water. But you have to be little careful with any other street food as water is not that great here and so better to slip in restaurant for awesome iddli and dosa.

Fried corn

Chennai Tea

Chilli Bhajji and Coconut water

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

This city offers India best and most popular biryani and non- vegetarian varieties. Seek kabab are mouth watering. During Id best of halim dishes are made in this city. Apart from food don't forget to buy pearl neck-less for your loved once near Char Minar.

Biryani

Street fish fries

Seek Kabab

This blog is
unending if I continues city by city. I am sure many best knows street foods
and cities have been given a miss in this blog so if you have tried any please
make sure you add in comment section for wider audience benefit.

“When people
wore hats and gloves, nobody would dream of eating on the street. Then white
gloves went out of style and, suddenly, eating just about anything in the
street became OK." as told by Jane Addison

Saturday, 13 April 2013

Journey where everyone is alone; might sound sarcastic as you may happen
to think how came everyone is alone in a journey? Journey unites people and
allows them to meet and experience change. But dear there are certain journeys
where everyone is alone. Let me unfold the known secret. Few journeys taken towards
your soul, character, behavior, duties, love, kindness and finally death to
name few are those journeys which everyone has to experience it alone. These
are ultimate journey and you will be failed to name anyone who will be along
with you to complete this expedition. It’s only individual who are held
responsible for each of the above promenade. Purity of soul; Diligence in
Character; Charm in behavior; sincerity in duty; grandness in love &
kindness; departure from earth; All these and many more are solely depend upon
you. Except yourself you cannot blame anyone in its collapse. By all means you
can give credit to someone in its rise to some extent. But the fact remains
that you are companion-less.

I am going to narrate one small story from my religion i.e. Hinduism
holy book to further validate that we are all alone in this path. One day devout
hermit named Narada Muni was passing
by a deep forest way when he ran into jungle bandit, who insisted him to give
everything he owns, from his clothing to the shoes he was wearing. Narada Muni
asked robber if his family was part of this sin that he was committing and he
told him to go ask his family that same question. Robber tied Narada to a tree
to make him stay in that same spot until he was back. When robber asked his
parents if they were with him on the sin that he was doing, they replied that
it was his job to take care of them, and that only he was responsible for his
own sins. His wife also said the same thing. Bandit then returned to Narada
Muni and fell to his feet. He told him that he alone was responsible for the
sins and asked him to help him get rid of the sins he had committed. This
incident changed the bandit fortune. He met his soul and to get rid of his sins
he meditated and later became greatest poet in Sanskrit literature and authored
one of the great epic of India i.e. Ramayana. He is known by name Valmiki after
his incarnation.

Each of us has come to this world with some purpose and duties to fulfill. If we happen to get a feeling of doing any social work or hunger of
making change the way things are now or desire to make your country/home/environment/universe
more beautiful for coming generations then remember this thought is just not touching
your soul to make you feel better but analyze in other aspect it could be a natures
ways of reminding for your unfulfilled duties so far from the creator of this
universe. As ultimately you will be reporting to him. There you cannot blame
anyone as you are blessed to be alone again. I am sure you will not think of misrepresenting
the fact which we are used to while our stay in mother earth. So what are you waiting
for? Get up and go ahead to fulfill your duties without brooding much on
obstacles you are likely to face but on possible feasibility. It is also your
duty to bridge smooth path between responsibility and duties. Duties do not
give you any reasons to be free from your current responsibilities.